PELICAN. 611 



Felecanus Pifcator, Lin. Syft. i. p. 217. — Aikcsk. Acad. iv. p. 239. 8. (3; i6. 



(fuemina).— OJleck. Voy. i. p. 127. +" LESSER G„ 



Le Fou blanc, BriJ. Qrn. vi. p. 503. 4... — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 371. 



CIZE of a large Duck: length two feet feven inches. Bill five Description. 



inches long, ferrated on the edges, and reddifh. : fpace between 

 the bill and eyes naked, and of the fame colour : throat naked* 

 dufky black: general colour of the plumage white, except the 

 greater wing coverts and quills, which are black: the fcapulars 

 are alfo black at the ends : the tail confifts of fourteen feathers; is 

 cuneiform in fhape ; the bafe white, but black the reft of their 

 length : the legs red : the middle claw broad and ferrated. 



This fpecies is faid to inhabit China, where it is called Bubbi; Place. 



and is fuppofed to be one of the forts ufed by the Cbinefe to catch 

 fljh, a ring being placed round the neck. Some birds have thofe 

 parts of a deep brown which in others are black. 



The male is faid to be wholly black, with a hoary belly : bill 

 and legs as in the other. But I much fufpect it to be the brown 

 Booby, if not fome other fpecies, and not related at all to the 

 white one. I am led to think this from a drawing of the laft, the 

 notes belonging to which obferve, that it is common in the IJland 

 of AJcenfion ; and particularly mention^ that there is no difference 

 of plumage in either fex, 



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